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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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DFHMQTRU GETMAIN should be in CICSKEY

In the current design, the DFHMQTRU GETMAIN's without specifying CICSKEY or USERKEY option. So the GETMAINed storage is default to the setting in TASKDATAKEY for the transaction. Therefore it is possible that the application would FREEMAIN the DFH...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

RDz CARMA Quick Edit "bypass generate processor" option

In RDz 8.5.1.2 client, when an element is open and edit in CARMA repository view, once it is save by "cntrl+s", the Add/Update dialog prompted don't have the choice for "bypass generate processor" (which we can have this for normal Add/ Update ele...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

CICS tran dump threshold

System: CICS 4.2Actor: CICS programmer CICS currently allows us to set the TRDUMAX system initialization parm to specify the limit on the number of transaction dumps that may be taken per Dump Table entry. Description:Program testing sometimes cau...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Delivered

Request that product provide reporting on DASD requirements for restorable datasets.

AB&R does not report on DASD requirements for restorable datasets.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered

Requesting product to report on non-critical datasets with backups.

AB&R does not report on non-critical datasets with backups.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 3 Delivered

Requesting that product provide an alternate site configuration.

AB&R does not provide an alternate site configuration.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make available in RDz and PD-Tools studio own messages in Lookup

Make available in RDz and PD-Tools studio own messages in Lookup as like as in mainframe environment.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS Explorer Event Processing Adapter for CICS TDQ

Would be good to have an EPadapter for CICS TDQueues - sim lar to the TS Queue Adapter which is already present in Explorer for CICS 5.1. TDQueus have more possibilities for use than TS queues for us.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

ScrollBar in Show Dependencies

windows version: win7RDZ version: 8.5In Enterprise Development perspective, the Show Dependencies result windows does not have a vertical scrollbar. This is not good if there are a lot of dependent files to display.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Requesting ablity to report on critical jobs

AB&R needs the capability to report on critical jobs. Not every job within a DR is critical, so it is important to filter reporting so that only critical jobs are included. This valuable capability exists in our current product, DR Manager
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 3 Delivered